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That's a bunch of questions!

Okay, so first of all, the bonus is cumulative, so each consecutive day a mare spends in pasture counts towards helping her throw the best foal she can. 30 days is the full bonus, and although it's too late to accumulate that before the end of this breeding season, you can still get a decent bonus by the 27th (that's the last day of breeding season, not the last day of the month) and if you leave your mares in pasture after that, they will continue to accumulate the pasture bonus and will reach the full 30-day bonus in time for next breeding season. And though your pastures don't open for breeding until the 7th, you can still put your mares in now and let them start accumulating days in pasture.

Mares can be left in pasture all the time and breeding them doesn't reset the bonus. You can even remove the mares from pasture to a barn briefly without them losing the bonus. They only lose the bonus if they spend nightly rollover (midnight game time) outside of the pasture. (Just make sure all mares that you want to get to the full bonus are back in the pasture before midnight game time.) So you can do as you suggest, keep them in pasture to accumulate the bonus, and then remove them and put selective groupings a few at a time into the pasture to breed. If you do this just remember not to leave a stallion in with the mares until you're ready to breed them because pastures will auto-breed in the middle of the month, I forget the exact day. Stallions don't accumulate a pasture bonus anyway, just the mares.

I hope that helps! :)

Also , the "Mare Bonus" is actually given to the foals ; you get a higher percentage of intact foals, as well as possibly higher papers and PT Scores ; I know its hard especially in the beginning, but please try to keep as many of your foals / Pointed Creates as you can; your show herd ill support your breeding program